Nayef bin Abdulaziz

Nayef bin Abdulaziz (1934-16 June 2012) was the Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 2011 to 2012, succeeding Sultan bin Abdulaziz and preceding Salman bin Abdulaziz. From 1975 to 2012, he was also Minister of the Interior, succeeding Fahd bin Abdulaziz and preceding Ahmed bin Abdulaziz.

Biography
Nayed bin Abdulaziz was born in 1934 to King Ibn Saud, his 23rd son. From 1952 to 1953 he was the Governor of Riyadh Province, and in 1975 he was made the Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia. In December 1994, aided by Prince Turki bin Faisal, he ordered hundreds of arrests of terrorists in the country, although after the 9/11 attacks he did not take sufficient actions against extremists and claimed that the Saudi hijackers were dupes in an Israeli plot. In 2011 he became the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as well as Deputy Prime Minister, succeeding Sultan bin Abdulaziz. He died on 16 June 2012, and Salman bin Abdulaziz became the new Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister.